The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.

I have very little patience with children.